Swains Creek Airport
UT00 · Alton, Utah · Kane County · map
Swains Creek Airport is a private airport owned by Swains Creek Pines Lot Owners Assoc, 7 miles northwest of Alton, Utah, 7,780 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 5,600 feet of dirt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA UT00
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Swains Creek Pines Lot Owners Assoc
- Elevation
- 7,780 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Las Vegas sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1973
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 5,600 × 50 ft | Dirt, good |
- Runway 01: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 200 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
- Runway 19: road 15 ft high 25 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Parowan Airport (25 nm north), Cedar City Regional (27 nm northwest), Bryce Canyon Airport (27 nm northeast), Kanab Municipal (28 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Parowan Airport (25 nm north), Cedar City Regional (27 nm northwest), Bryce Canyon Airport (27 nm northeast), Kanab Municipal (28 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Utah · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Runway condition: good; takeoff to north and land to south advisable due to runway gradient and terrain rise to south.
- +150' trees 100' left of centerline extndd.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Alton from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Alton, Utah: 1 piston single. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Utah.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Alton 1 aircraft · 1 piston singles
- Accidents and incidents in Utah 1,440 since 1982 · 264 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Utah 49 landing places
- Utah 8,355 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/UT00.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 30, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.